Don’t ask silly questions. This is England. What’s the point in complaining. This is England. It’s a raggedy nation where everything is upside down. A nation with little customs and modern people. It’s a lively world.

BRIVELEKH FUN RUSLAND

Oy di brivelekh fun rusland

Zaynen fil mit laydn, fil mit shmerts

Az me nemt a brivele in di hent

Oyf shtiker vert tsurisn dos herts.

Fil mit veynen, fil mit trern

Ka freylekh vort vet ir nit hern

In di brivelekh fun rusland.

Oh the letters from Russia re full of suffering and pain. When you take a letter in your hands, it’s of little worth, but tears your heart. Full of crying and tears, no joyful word to be heard in the letters from Russia.

AZOY GEYT DOS GELT AVEK

un azoy geyt dos gelt avek

un dernokh dreyt zikh der moyekh

azoy geyt dos gelt avek

vayl me lebt groys ibern koyekh

men fort in Crystal Palace shpatsirn

men hulyet az es iz a shrek

men lebt zikh gants fayn

un oykh nit alayn

azoy geyt dos gelt avek

And so the money disappears and your head is spinning. The money goes because you live beyond your means. You go and live it up in Crystal Palace, and not alone. And so the money goes.